GA-STNL-0055

Record Date: 
20 May 2024
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Errected To the Memory of William Topham who Died 12 of January l[8-7] [age]d 52 years [his beloved] [f]ather SI- - on

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.27273
Longitude: 
-9.0532397222222
Additional details
References: 
Fleetwood Berry (1912 A), 5. He gives 20 of January but it is definitely 12 of January.
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
TOPHAM
Notes: 

The inscribed part of a gravestone which has been cut up and reused as paving in the graveyard path. The fragment is broken in three across the inscription. The age of the deceased could be 52 or 82? The top of the slab is rounded. The Inc'd. Ins. is quite worn.